1778 Capt. Cook Antique Print Weapons Tools Hats from New Caledonia - Cook 1774 Portraits William Ernest Powell Giles 1835

William Ernest Powell Giles 1835 – 1897 best known as Ernest Giles

Plate size: - 7in x 5in (180mm x 130mm) each plate

Thomas Fairbairn to reproduce them

He tried to convince some of his crewmates to desert with him

The HBC negotiated a trading monopoly from the English crown for the Hudson Bay watershed

1778 Capt. Cook Antique Print Weapons Tools Hats from New Caledonia - Cook 1774 Portraits William Ernest Powell Giles 1835Title : Ornemens et Armes de la Nouvelle Caledonie Size: 15in x 10in (380mm x 255mm) Ref #: 16362 Date : 1778 Condition: (A) Very Good Condition Description: This large original copper plate engraved antique print of various weapons, farming tools and ornaments from the New Caledonia Islands visited by Captain James Cook in September 1774, in HMS Resolution & Adventure, during his 2nd Voyage of Discovery to the South Seas, was engraved by Robert